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| 'Home' is a 16"x20" acrylic on canvas. I love this
painting, it hangs in my kitchen. Something about the coziness and comfort, and
the old couple still together. Mmmmmm :) |
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1. This painting started from unrest. As I've mentioned in another recent State of the Art, I have moved house, and the first couple weeks were a tangle of tears, emptiness, and missing my sons. (A long & modern story.) Anyhow, one day, it was either go nuts or channel it somewhere so I started painting and out popped this odd yet calm woman :) |
 2. I started to really dig her peacefulness and played that quality up in her face, and added water , and what's that behind her? A bath pillow? haha I don't know what I was going for there, I was just paintin'. Paint now, ask questions later ;) |
 3. So I'm goin' along with this water theme, (lost the bath pillow) but I started getting the feeling that I didn't know where to take this painting, and that is almost always a signal for me to paint over it and change direction. |
 4. But! Because I love working on faces, I play with the nose and shading, detail her hair, and lighten up the water all around her... |
 5. I decide to keep at it, but what I ~don't~ have a picture of is the step where I covered the entire image in blue paint. What you see here is right after that, where I take a wet cloth and wipe the entire painting down, revealing layers of color underneath. I also painted a smile on her face :) |
 6. Ok, you still with me? haha, in an act of courage, I bid her adieu (it really was time to move on) and painted over her, again, not sure where I was going, just sure I didn't want to be where I ~was~. Ever have that feeling? |
 7. Aw, here we go, that's who I was waiting for! |
 8. Once these two are in the painting, the room around them just about paints itself. Now that the painting is heading in a direction I can follow, it moves along quickly, a sure sign that I'm on the right track. So it looks like we're in their kitchen :) |
 5. I add light and detail and brighten things up. Sometimes a painting charms me (even my own) and this is one of those times... so at this point, I hung it up in my kitchen, and there it sits, exactly as you see it here, with one item on the wall shelf, that little blue honey jar). I consider this painting not quite finished and I'm sure someday I'll poke at it some more (for instance, the old woman doesn't have a face) but for now, I love it too much on my wall. It brings peace to my new home. (Maybe it's because of the peaceful woman under the paint). Click on it :) |
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